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H. R. TAYLOR. FURNITURE DRAWER. No. 20,100. Patented Apr. 27, 1858.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

H. R. TAYLOR, 0F ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

DRAWER FOR CLOSETS, BUREAUS, &0.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 20,100, dated April 27, 1858.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY R. TAYLOR, of Roxbury, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Drawers for Closets, Furniture, &c., of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a plan of a bureau with the drawers pulled out. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same on the line m, rv, of Fig. 1.

In bureau and other drawers it is found that when they contain articles of much weight, they cannot be pulled out to near their full extent without danger of the drawer sagging down so as to injure the article offurniture, and also to make it difficult vto push the drawer back again into place. And when a drawer is of considerable width on the front without a corresponding depth, it is liable to push in unequally or with the sides of the drawer out of parallel with the sides of its receptacle. To obviate these difficulties is the object of my present invention which consists in supporting the drawer when pulled out in a manner substantially such as will now be described.

In the drawings A, represents a bureau having one drawer B, which is pulled .out to its full extent, the drawer is supported when drawn out, in the following manner: A sliding piece C, of the form shown in Fig. 2 is placed alongside of the drawer on each side of it; a cleat D, Fig. 2 is attached to the inside of the bureau immediately above the path of the piece C, and of a corresponding thickness so as not to interfere with the drawer when the latter is pushed in, a groove a, in the lower edge of this cleat receives a tongue Z), on the upper edge of the piece C, as this groove is not cut the whole length of the cleat/but stops at c, the piece C cannot be drawn out beyond the position shown in Fig. 2, a portion of the side of the groove a is cutaway at the rear end at d to admit the tongue b, when the piece C, is entered in its place.

The drawer has attached to each side a roller f, that is supported in a metal box or band e, this roller runs on the edge of the piece C, at a part of it which is cut down, leaving a shoulder at g against which the box e, strikes when the drawer is pushed in, and another shoulder at 7L against which the box e, strikes when the drawer is pulled out.

In large drawers I make use of friction rollers 70, and Z, (shown dotted) which are placed beneath the drawer, but as these are not essential to the working of the parts they need not be further described. Instead of the box e, and roller f, a single stop of hard wood may be attached to the side of the drawer.

The following is the way in which this drawer operates. As the drawer B, is pulled out the metal boxes e, strike againstl the shoulders 71 and draw out the sliding pieces 70 C, the tongue ZJ, running in the groove a, prevents any lateral vibration of the pieces C, and they in turn keep the drawer straight. When the drawer is out itis electually sup* ported by the rollers f, resting on the pieces 75 C and these being drawn out but part way are support-ed in the bureau between the vbottom E, over which t-he drawer slides and the cleats D, above them. As the drawer is pushedin the boxes e, strike the shoulders g, and carry the pieces C in with the drawer,

`when they are entirely concealed by the projections m, on the front of the drawer.

With a drawer arranged and supported as above described, it may be pulled out to its full extent without danger of its falling out of its recess or of sagging down, and in returning it into its place it will not be requisite to lift the weight of the front part before it can be pushed in while the pieces C, serve as guides for thesides of the drawer and prevent the lateral motion which makes the drawer bind first on one side and then on the other when not pushed in straight.

I have spoken of this improved method of supporting drawers as applied to bureaus, but it is evident that it may be used for almost every kind of drawer and is particularly useful where it is intended to contain articles of much weight.

It is'o-bvious that there are other plans 0f carrying out my invention without departing from the spirit of it; 'for inst-ance a piece somewhat wider than the bottom of the drawer may be arranged beneath it, to 105 be pulled ou't with the drawer in a similar manner, small cleats at the side Of the reconnected With the drawer and operating ceptacle preventing the piece from being in the manner substantially as herein set tilted; but the plan rst described is that forth.

which I prefer. HENRY R. TAYLOR. 5 What I claim as my invention and desire Witnesses: to secure by Letters-Patent is, SAM. COOPER,

The sliding pieces C, or their equivalents P. E. TESCHEMACHER. 

